What is it? |
• Default Clearinghouse search engine
• Powered by Google |
• In-house search of all links on the Clearinghouse |
• In-house search of all links on the Clearinghouse
• Offers more choices to narrow your search |
Where is it? |
• Upper right hand corner of each Clearinghouse page
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• Upper right hand corner of each Clearinghouse page. You must select the option "Search our database of links" below the search box
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• Located on its own page
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What it Searches? |
• Full text of all Clearinghouse web pages, including Word documents and PDFs hosted on the Clearinghouse server |
• Title, author, source, summary, and keywords fields of each link on the Clearinghouse |
• Title, author, source, summary, and/or keywords fields of each link on the Clearinghouse |
When to use? |
• To find a Clearinghouse page on a particular topic
• To search the full text of documents on the Clearinghouse |
• To find direct links to resources on a particular topic
• To find direct links to resources by a particular author or source |
• To find direct links to resources on a more specific topic
• To find direct links to resources by a particular author or source
• To find a link to one particular resource when you know all or part of its citation
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How to use? |
• Type search term(s) into the search box
• (Optional) Use Google search options to narrow down your search.
For help, see Google Search Tips |
• Select the option "Search our database of links" below the search box
• Type in a term or phrase
• All words will be treated as a phrase
• Does not recognize Boolean operators
• Acronyms will also be searched as the spelled-out version.
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• Select which field (title, author/source, summary, keywords, or all) to search using the drop-down box
• All words in a particular search box are treated as a phrase
• Acronyms will also be searched as the spelled-out version. See our Listing of Acronyms recognized by the search • You may also search on our internal keywords. See a Listing of Keywords used in the Clearinghouse.
Optional:
• Add a second word or phrase in the second search box and choose a Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT)
• Select a resource type from the drop-down box to limit results to this resource type
• Choose to view the results alphabetically instead of the default sorting by entry date to the Clearinghouse |
